Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher and one of the founding members of OpenAI, said in a post on social media platform X that he departed the Microsoft-backed company on Monday.

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Maybe those board and ceo shenanigans did leave a bad taste internally, afterall.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It’s still just one person. He might have been pioneering the technology in the early days of the company, but they should have progressed to a point where it doesn’t really matter.

    The “brains” behind certain technologies often leave once a company moves from the development to a commercial stage.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      In any large development project there are a few people that really move things forward and a lot of people that are just along for the ride. Karpathy was in the corner category. His absence will be felt, just like it was at Tesla. Or what major progress have they made since he left?